I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.